Googlebot Won't Go Home

GOOGLEBOT WON'T GO HOME

I have 'Googlebot' crawl my site every day like a dispossessed
spirit that can't leave.

It was not always like this, I would go for a month or more
before he came to my site and then would only crawl a few pages
and leave again.

This has been going on now for two months or more, I've been
watching the stats on my server everyday seeing just where he
goes. He will crawl a few pages one day, and the next some other
pages, and then finally leave until the morrow.
After just three or four weeks, I noticed I got an infestation
of lesser bots calling as well, some I have never heard of
before, they seem to follow 'Googlebot' as though he is the
Pied Piper of Hamelin.

What caused this infestation of bots?

Well, I got interested in rss feeds, I thought "What a good tool
for drawing traffic to my site."

So I studied up on rss feeds until I understood what was involved.
Now I am no 'techie', and the most programming I do is html in
'Notepad', making my own web pages.

Rss feeds use a similar language called xml, so it was easy to
understand for me, and I was able to quickly make up an rss feed
page in 'Notepad', placed it on my server, downloaded a 'feed
reader' software, opened it up, placed the address of my feed in
the 'feed reader', and up came my rss feed in the reader. It was
so easy I wrote an ebook to tell everyone how to do it, it's called
"Really Simple RSS".

There are many rss directories and syndication services that I
submitted the address of my rss feed to, so other people can look
at the feed in their 'feed reader' and see what articles I am
posting.

Some of the 'subscribers' to the feed actually come and visit my
site to see what it's all about, which happened almost straight away
after I submitted my feed.

In less than 36 hours, 'Googlebot' found my feed!

In a little over two days later Yahoo's 'Slurp' bot found my feed,
and from there on they have both been crawling my site with the
lesser bots every single day.

They crawl everything, they crawl all my pdf ebooks, they look
at a few pages in 'Webmasters Corner', they even look at my
'Bonus Reports', and even descend the staircase into my 'Secret
Vault'!

When will they go home and stop prying into my little secrets?

I know I encourage them like leaving cheese for a mouse, by putting
more pdf files, software and ebooks on my site every day, so I
suppose the poor bots can't ever keep up!

I found out that like mice like cheese, that 'Googlebot' likes
my pdf files, he has been fitted with digital spectacles so he
is now able to actually read keyword rich pdf files all the way
through to the end! So he likes pdf files.

So I have obliged him!

I put 85 pdf files up on my server one night just to keep him
happily reading! I have put many more up on the server since,
and will continue to create more pdf files of classic authors
for free download, just to keep him calling with his 'friends'.

Isn't this a laugh?

It's like taking in a stray dog, feeding him, housing him, and
the dog losing the ability to wander off again and finding you
have got a lodger for life.

My site's ranking has risen considerably both in Yahoo and Google,
but for some reason that escapes me for the time being, my ranking
rose more quickly in Yahoo and they rank it much higher than Google.
I may well find the reason for this before long and put it in another
article.

So if you are a web site owner struggling to get noticed by the web
bots, don't put it off much longer, put up an rss feed with articles
about your products or service and not only will 'Googlebot' call
with his 'friends', but actual live people will call too.